St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-01-15
INTERSTATE COMMERCE. BILL.
Ii Passes the Senate Aftera Long De-
bafe by a Large NiaiorifH

WASHINGTON, Jan. 14.-Senator Sabin
introduced bill TO amend the act granting
to rallro ads the right of way through public
lands. The senate then resumed consider
alton of the interstate commerce bill, and
was addressed by Senators Hoar, Sherman
and Edmunds. Other arguments were
made at great length by Messrs. Aldrich,
Wilson, Morrill,, Cullom and Spooner At
the conclusion of the debate Mr.. Frye moved
to recommit the report with instructions to
the senate conferees to insist on striking
out section and substituting section 4 of
the senate bill; also on striking out section
and substituting for it section 10 of the
senate bill (Which is the clause authorizing
the commissioners to investigate the SUBJ
Ject OF pooling and report at some future
day. Mr.. Evarts said he would
VOTE TO RECOMMIT,
believing that that action would bring con-
greSS and the country nearer to a good bill
than ever before. Mr.. Cullom said he
should regard the vote on the motion to re-
commit as test vote on the question. The
vote was taken on the motion to recOmmit,
and the motion was rejected-yeas 25, nays
36-aS follows:
Messrs. Aldrch, Blair, Brown, Cameron.
Chase, Cheney, Evarts, Frye, Gray, Hale,
Hampton, Hawley, Hoar, Malone, Mitchell,
gan, Morrill,, Payne, Plat, Sawyer, Sewel,
Sherman, Spooner, Williams-25.
NAYS.
Messrs. Allison, Beck, Berry, Blackburn,
Bowen, Call, Cockrell, Coke, Colquitt, Conger
Cullom, Dolph, Edmunds, Eustis, Fair, gorge,
Gibson, German, Harris, Ingalls,, Jones, of
Arkansas; Jones, of Nevada; Mcmillan, Man.
derson, Palmer. Plumb, Pugh, Sabin, Sauls-
bury, Teller. Vance, Vest, Waltham, Whit
horn, Wilson, of Iowa; Wilson, of Maryland
-36.
PAIRS WE'RE ANNOUNCED
between Messrs. Butler and Van Wyck,
Camden and Stanford, Dawes and MaXey,
Kenna and Miller, Mcpherson and Voor-
heeS, and it was stated that Mr.. Ransom
was absent on account of illness in his fam
lily. Mr.. Dolph stated the reason which
would induce him to vote for the conference
report, and Mr.. Blair stated the objections
which he had to it. The vote was taken
and the conference report was agreed to,
yeas 43, nays 10, as follows:
YEAS.
Messrs. ALLISON, Beck, Berry, Blackburn,
Bowen, Call. CockrelI, Coke, Colquitt, Conger,
Cullom, Edmunds, Eustis, Dolph, Fair George
German, Gibson, Gray, Hale, Harris, Hawley,
ingalls,, Jones, Arkansas; Jones, Nevada;
Mcmillan, Henderson, Mitchell, Oregon;
Palmer, Plumb, Pugh, Sabin, Salisbury Saw
yer. Sewell, Sherman, Spooner, Teller. Vance,
Vest, Walthan, Whitthorn, Wilson, Iowa-43.
NAYS.
Messrs. Aldrich, Blair, Brown, Cameron,
Chase, Cheney, Evarts, Hampton, Hoar Ma
hone, Mitchell, Pennsylvania; Morrill,, Payne,
Platt, Williams-15.
The senate then, at 11:40, adjourned till
Monday.
The House.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.-THE confer
ence report on the electoral count bill was
agreed to, after which the house went into
committee of the whole to consider senate
bills on the private calendar. At O'Clock
the committee rose and the house passed
half dozen private senate bills, including
one for the relief of the sufferers from the
wreck of the steamer Ashuelot. The house